-Inthispaperasimpleandefficientimplicitfinite-differenceschemeisusedfordepth-averagedtwo-dimensionalstormsurgemodel.Thisfinite-differenceschemeissimplerandmoreefficientthanthewi-dely-usedADIscheme.Accuracyanalysisandstabilityanalysisindicatethattheschemehastwo-orderac-curacyandisunconditionallystablewhenthegridsizeisconstant.ThepresentanalysisresultsshowthattheschemeisofhighernumericalaccuracythanthatintroducedbyMaa(1990).Aftertestedbyidealmod-els,acalculationexampleofarealtyphoonsurgeiscarriedout,theresultsofthenumericalsimulationco-incidewellwiththeobserveddataandtheaccuracyissufficientforengineeringapplications.